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GOERICKE, RALF

Associate Research Oceanographer

Degrees:

• Diploma, Kiel University
• M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington
• Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests:

• Physiological ecology of phytoplankton
• Ecology of the tropical and subtropical open ocean
• Isotopic tracers in marine systems

Mentoring:

• Gorga, Joseph (Post Doc; 2005-)
• Mendez, Maria (Graduate; 2001-2003)
• Olaizola, Miguel (Post Doc; 1995-1998)
• Shankle, Amy (Graduate; 1995-1999)

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2000

S. McClatchie, R. Goericke, R. Cosgrove, R. Vetter, Oxygen in the Southern California Bight: multidecadal trends, impact of El Niño, and implications for demersal fisheries. Geophysical Res. Letters. SUBMITTED 2008

S. McClatchie, R. Goericke, J. A. Koslow et al. The state of the California Current, 2007 – 2008: La Nina conditions and their effects on the ecosystem. CalCOFI Reports 2008, 49. SUBMITTED 2008

M. R. Landry, M. D. Ohman, R. Goericke, M. R. Stukel, K. Tsyrklevich, Lagrangian studies of phytoplankton growth and grazing relationships in a coastal upwelling ecosystem off Southern California. Progress in Oceanography. SUBMITTED 2008

Goericke, R., Size structures of marine phytoplankton communities – What are the rules? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 18 pp. 2004

Goericke R, Venrick E, Koslow T, et al. 2007. The state of the California Current, 2006-2007: Regional and local processes dominate. CalCOFI Reports, 48: 33-66.

Peterson B, Emmett R, Goericke R, et al. 2006. The state of the California current, 2005-2006: Warm in the North, cool in the South. CalCOFI Reports, 47: 30-74.

Sieracki ME, Gilg IC, Thier EC, Goericke R. 2006. Distribution of planktonic aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacteria in the northwest Atlantic. Limnology & Oceanography, 51: 38 – 46.

Goericke R, Venrick E, Mantyla A, et al. 2005. The state of the California current, 2004-2005: Still cool? CalCOFI Reports, 46: 32 – 71.

Repeta, D.J., N.T. Hartman, S. Johnes, A.D. Jones, R. Goericke. 2004. Structure elucidation and characterization of polychlorinated biphenyl carboxylic acids as major constituents of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in seawater. Environmental Science and Technology. 38: 5373 - 78.

Goericke, R. and 14 others. 2004. The state of the California Current 2003-2004: A rare normal year. CalCOFI Rep., 45: 27 – 59.

Dahl KA, Repeta DJ, Goericke R, 2004. Reconstructing the phytoplankton community of the Cariaco Basin during the Younger Dryas cold event using chlorin steryl esters. Paleoceanography 19: PA1006, doi:10.1029/2003PA000907

Hiscock, M.R., J. Marra, W.O. Smith Jr., R. Goericke, C. Measures, S.Vink, R.J. Olson, H.M. Sosik, R.T. Barber. 2003. Primary productivity and its regulation in the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography. 50:533-558.

Schwing, F.B. S.J. Bograd, C.A. Collins, G. Garcia J. Gaxiola-Castro, R. Goericke, J. Gomez-Valdez, A. Huyer, K.D. Hyrenbach, P.M. Kosro, B.E. Lavaniegos, R.J. Lynn, A.W. Mantyla, M.D. Ohman, W.T. Peterson, R.L. Smith, W.J. Sydeman, E. Venrick, P.A. Weeler. 2002 The state of the California Current, 2001-2002: Will the California Current System keep its cool, or is El Nino looming? Calif. Coop. Ocean. Fish. Invest. Rep. 43:31-68, 2002 Dec.

Shankle, A.M., R. Goericke, P. J. S. Franks, L. A. Levin. 2002. Chlorin distribution and degradation in sediments within and below the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone. Deep-Sea Research I 49: 953-969, Pergamon Press.

Goericke, R. 2002. Top-down control of phytoplankton biomass and community structure in the monsoonal Arabian Sea. Limnol. & Oceanogr. 47:1307-1323. Amer. Soc. for Limnology and Oceanography.

Johnson, Z., R. R. Bidigare, R. Goericke, J. Marra, C. Trees, R. T. Barber. 2002. Photosynthetic physiology and physiochemical forcing in the Arabian Sea, 1995. Deep-Sea Research I 49: 415 - 436. Pergamon Press.

Roessler, C.S., C. W. Culbertson, S. M. Etheridge, R. Goericke, R. P. Kiene, L.G. Miller, R. S. Oremland. 2002. Distribution, production and ecophysiology of Picocystis strain ML in Mono Lake, California. Limnology and Oceanography, 47:440-452 Amer. Soc. for Limnology and Oceanography

Goericke, R. 2002. Bacteriochlorophyll a in the ocean: Is anoxygenic bacterial photosynthesis important? Limnol. & Oceanogr. 47: 290 - 295. Amer. Soc. for Limnology and Oceanography.

Lewin, R., L. Krienitz, R. Goericke, H. Takeda, D. Hepperle. 2000. Picocystis salinarum gen. et sp. nov. (Chlorophyta)–a new picoplanktonic green alga. J. Phycology. 39: 560-565. Phycological Society of America.

Barber, R. T., J. Marra, R.C. Bidigare, L.A. Codispoti, D. Halpern, Z. Johnson, M. Latasa, R. Goericke, S.L. Smith. 2001. Primary productivity and its regulation in the Arabian Sea during 1995. Deep Sea Res. II, 48: 1127-1172. Pergamon Press.

Goericke R., R. J. Olson, A. Shalapyonok. 2000. A novel niche for Prochlorococcus sp. in low-light suboxic environments in the Arabian Sea and the Eastern Tropical North Pacific. Deep Sea Res. I, 47:1183-1205. Pergamon Press.

Goericke R., S. Strom, M. A.Bell. 2000. Distribution and sources of cyclic pheophorbides in the marine environment. Limnol. & Oceanogr., 45(1):200-211. Amer. Soc. for Limnology and Oceanography